> > From: "J. Groves-Hurt" <[email protected]> > > I'd like to get the opinions of the group as to the best way to assign > numbers to identify documents. For example; Death could be for an obituary, > a death cert., book reference, tombstone, letters, etc. I break them down further, death certificates, obituaries, books, cemetery readings, church records etc. My numbering system is Death000#, Obit000#, Book000# and so forth. The only place I don't break this system down is with church records. They stay all in one file, though I am toying with the idea of seperating them by church. Anita Reid

As my research is exclusively UK, I find that most of my records pre-1837 are church records--sometimes hundreds of years of them--so I do break them down: PBa XXXX for parish record baptisms PMa XXXX for PR marriages PBu XXXX for PR burials but banns as Bns XXXX because they only occur in parish records and don't have to be differentiated from any other kind. Obits, if I ever found any for my almost exclusively agricultural labourer ancestors, would be classified as Obit XXXX. I think it's very important to look beyond the type of documents you now work with to those you might have to deal with a few years down the line. In other words, where will your research eventually take you and what type of records will you be working with? I think this is reason enough to be as specific as you can with what you have now. Regards, Stella Howlett BC, Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: Anita Reid [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: July 17, 2001 5:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Clooz] Re: Clooz-D Digest V01 #93 > > > > > > From: "J. Groves-Hurt" <[email protected]> > > > > I'd like to get the opinions of the group as to the > best way to assign > > numbers to identify documents. For example; Death could > be for an obituary, > > a death cert., book reference, tombstone, letters, etc. > > I break them down further, death certificates, > obituaries, books, cemetery > readings, church records etc. My numbering system is > Death000#, Obit000#, Book000# > and so forth. The only place I don't break this system > down is with church > records. They stay all in one file, though I am toying > with the idea of seperating > them by church. > Anita Reid > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >